So, I have been semi-successful. I've emptied my external drive onto my windows desktop, and I formatted about 40GB as NTFS, however I can't figure out how to format the rest of the drive a Mac Journal.
I'm wondering if I went about this backwards? Maybe I should format the drive on Mac, 40GB fat32 and the rest as Mac Journal, then go over to my Windows and reformat the fat32 partition? Lol, not sure, that sound a little nutty. Any guidance here? :) Traci Sent by Macbook Air Mail On Dec 26, 2011, at 5:45 PM, Scott Howell wrote: > You could do that, but it will take some time to back all that data up. Of > course no matter what you do you should have a good backup. You could try a > tool like Drive Genius or a program that will let you repartition the drive > without trashing the data. You could certainly save the money and just copy > everything over to your other machine and then partition and format the drive > as you like. > > On Dec 26, 2011, at 8:38 PM, Traci wrote: > >> Ok, I've ran into a little hitch in my plan. >> >> My external hard drive is actually ntfs, and there is more on it than I >> realized. I'm using just under 30GB. >> >> Lol, I'm not sure where I can temporarily place all this data, why I >> experiment with reformating. >> >> My windows laptop desktop makes the best sense, however free space on the >> laptop is 37GB. Can the machine handle being so full? >> >> Is creating a folder on my macbook desktop even an option? Paste all the >> data inside, then connect the drive to my windows to reformat? >> >> The instructions on the web are saying format a partition as ntfs, then >> leave the rest of the drive as empty unformatted space. Connect the drive >> to my Mac and format that empty partition as Mac Journal. >> >> What are the groups thoughts here? >> >> Traci >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Scott Howell >> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> Sent: Monday, December 26, 2011 1:57 PM >> Subject: Re: pc/mac external harddrive >> >> SUre, go for it. You have the right idea. >> >> On Dec 26, 2011, at 4:21 PM, Traci wrote: >> >>> Hello all, >>> >>> Ok, for the last hour or so, I've been reading material on the web about >>> using an external hard drive between mac/pc's. >>> >>> If I understand this correctly, I can partition the external drive into 2 >>> sections. One can be fat32 for windows and one can be mac journal >>> something. >>> >>> I don't plan on swapping data between machines, I just want to put this >>> 250gb drive to best use. I've been using it for Months backing up my >>> windows machine, now I want to use it for my Mac, but I don't want to lose >>> my windows data. >>> >>> So, for example: >>> 20GB is dedicated to windows, >>> and the rest is dedicated to Mac. >>> >>> What do you guys think? Is this doable or recommended? >>> >>> Thanks so much, >>> Traci >>> Sent by Macbook Air Mail >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
